cognition

Meaning

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
2. A result of a cognitive process.

Synonyms

understanding

knowledge

perception

noesis

knowing

realization

awareness

cognizance

sense

think

🤔

thinking

🤔

thought

💭

understand

mental powers

cogitation

gnosia

comprehension

consciousness

insight

intellect

ken

know

learning

Translations

cognición

Kognition

connaissance

Erkenntnis

biliş

Erkennung

bilme

idrak

kavrama

Hyphenated as

cog‧ni‧tion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cognicion

In summary

From Middle English cognicion, from Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.